Combined with the lack of detected light from the lens at late HST epochs, the BH nature of the lens is conclusively verified ...

ruling out the possibility of it being a neutron star. It is thought to be 7.15 times the mass of the Sun, give or take 0.83 Sun, and is about 5,000 light-years away, much closer than the supermassive ...

Astronomers are unraveling the mystery behind Ansky, a black hole system emitting powerful, repeating X-ray bursts called ...

Researchers have spent the past few years watching a black hole re-awaken roughly 300 million light-years away from Earth.

NGC 4945, a beautiful spiral galaxy over 12 million light-years away, hides a ferocious secret: a ravenous black hole at its ...

Astronomers confirm a wandering black hole in our galaxy’s Sagittarius region using Hubble and Gaia microlensing data.

Astronomers have confirmed a wandering black hole, about seven times the mass of the Sun, 5,000 light-years from Earth.

A team of US astronomers led by Kailash Sahu said they have finally discovered the first isolated stellar-mass black hole ...

"We want to understand how these galaxies are forming stars, how many stars they’re forming, and especially how the black ...

By examining data from the Hubble Space Telescope and Gaia space probe, which were gathered from 2021 to 2022, the team ...

This gas needs an enormous amount of energy to shine — more than normal stars can supply. The discovery, based on data from ...

A black hole, seven times the mass of the Sun and located nearly 5,000 light-years away, has been confirmed as the first to ...